Imagine an apple sitting in space. A perceiver recognizes the existence of the apple. In other words, a person sees the apple sitting in space. It is of no consequence exactly where the apple is. The perceiver (the person) uses their sense of sight to gather that the apple is green. The use of touch reveals the apple is firm and seasoned. Smell discloses the apple is ripe. When a bite is taken from the apple a certain taste emulsifies the mouth and tells the perceiver something. What something? What is really happening here? According to Berkeley, author of Principles of Human Knowledge and Three Dialogues, the perceiver is perceiving the sensible impressions (193) integrated together in the apple. He further states that the senses of sight, smell, touch, taste and sound will give the perceiver certain notions about the being of the apple. In his Third Dialogue between Philonous and Hylas Berkeley uses the example of a cherry to illustrate this point. He uses mechanics of writing that actually draw on the senses he is trying to illustrate. This makes the reader connect to the dialogue in such a way that makes reading the paragraph about the cherry a sensory experience all in itself.
             Sensory words are able to give a connection unlike any other means of expression. Oftentimes it is difficult to feel black words placed on an ivory surface. The use of "I see...I feel...I taste" (193) recurs four times in the short paragraph. These words are universal to virtually every average human being and the experience which Berkeley is illustrating is in effect universalized to make a broader point. A reader, inevitably perceiving the letters on page, connects these words to events and experiences familiar to them. Berkeley can be sure that at the very moment a person perceivers a passage they are seeing, feeling and tasting all at the same time. Not established, however, are those who are deprived of one sense, partially or ...